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Life for James Holmes: Swift verdict from Aurora theater shooting jury
FOX31 Denver ^ | August 7, 2015

Posted on 08/07/2015 4:23:38 PM PDT by TomGuy

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- It took almost three years for the case to reach trial. That trial played out over the course of three months. The jury needed just 6.5 hours to render a verdict. James Holmes has been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: aurora; colorado; holmes; islam; jamesholmes; shootings; theater
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To: rikkir
I can kinda see why one person thought he was a couple fries short of a Happy Meal.

If they thought that, why did the jury reject the insanity defense?

You can't really have this both ways. Either he's crazy in the legal sense or he isn't. He can't be sane on the determination of guilt and insane on the consequences.

101 posted on 08/07/2015 8:28:39 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: LouAvul

That’s how we treat people who aren’t sane?


102 posted on 08/07/2015 8:30:12 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ JR.R. Tolkien)
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To: FredZarguna

Any time I find myself wondering what murderers laugh at, I will surely think of you.


103 posted on 08/07/2015 8:32:07 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

No think of yourself. You’re an easy mark.


104 posted on 08/07/2015 8:38:58 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: mountainbunny

That’s not how we treat anybody. Even when they’re sentenced to death they spend 30 years on death row, at taxpayer’s expense. So quit yer liberal whining.


105 posted on 08/07/2015 8:39:27 PM PDT by LouAvul (There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT lite.)
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To: FredZarguna

Hey I don’t know.
It’s CO’s system, I don’t live anywhere near it.

I was just commenting to a poster how it could happen.

They had to be unanimous on the first verdict. To get the DP they had to do it again, and couldn’t do it.

Heck I don’t know how.

I’m all for the Chinese DP. The only problem is you can’t administer it 12 times.


106 posted on 08/07/2015 8:46:44 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you can't make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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To: TomGuy

An average of 71 executions were carried out each year between 1997 and 2005; between 2006 and 2013, that number dropped to 44 executions per year. The number of executions peaked around the year 2000 and it has declined considerably since that point.

The death penalty is favored by a majority of Americans, but that number has plummeted. In 1996, 78 percent of Americans were in favor of capital punishment and 18 percent opposed it; by 2013, support had dropped to 55 percent while opposition had risen to 37 percent. The gap between supporters and opponents shrunk by 42 percentage points, which is a very big swing.

Between 1973 and 2014, 144 people who had been sentenced to death have been exonerated. Most of the overturned convictions were due to DNA evidence proving that another individual committed the crime.


107 posted on 08/07/2015 9:05:06 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: FredZarguna

I guess you aren’t up to speed on irony.


108 posted on 08/07/2015 9:23:47 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

That word doesn’t mean what you think it means.


109 posted on 08/07/2015 9:47:36 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: FredZarguna
That word doesn’t mean what you think it means.

How do you come by that information?

110 posted on 08/07/2015 10:17:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom
an irony is the use of word or phrase that express a totally different meaning from its literal meaning

Show me where you've written something that means the opposite of its literal meaning.

111 posted on 08/07/2015 10:40:59 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: FredZarguna

Check my post #103.


112 posted on 08/07/2015 10:53:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: FredZarguna
That's not irony, it's simply an example of a person who's mistaken. Your remark would be irony [sarcasm, actually, not irony, but I won't quibble] if I claimed to be an authority on what murderers think. I don't claim such authority: I refer you to people who are.

Your remark would be sarcasm if you had written [in literal agreement with what I actually wrote, but with sarcastic intent]: "Next time I wonder what murderer's think, I'll be sure to ask the authorities in corrections."

It would also betray more clearly to you how foolish you are, since pretending you know more about what murderer's think than people who actually handle them would be sarcasm on your part, and ironic to the rest of us.

As your fatuous claims that LWOP is "worse" than the dealth penalty truly are, as well. So, you win todays all Internet award not only for most gormless irony of the day, but for not even knowing what irony is.

113 posted on 08/08/2015 12:14:32 AM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: FredZarguna

I agree with you. Just pointing out that there is the occasional person who seeks death.


114 posted on 08/08/2015 2:14:22 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: doc1019

Sadly you are right....even here in Texas it takes one or two years and millions in lawyer and court costs!!


115 posted on 08/08/2015 4:37:50 AM PDT by ontap
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To: willibeaux

Was on a murder case jury years ago. We were asked during pre-trial screening whether we could, given the facts, rules, etc. give the death penalty.

When it came down to it, at least 2 could not do so, even though they agreed it was merited.


116 posted on 08/08/2015 5:15:30 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Randy Larsen

T. McVey was “executed” and immediately put in a private hearse and taken away about the same time his sister vanished. There was no autopsy. Put to death? maybe or maybe not


117 posted on 08/10/2015 5:59:36 AM PDT by vortec94
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To: Wilhelm Tell

The Commonwealth of Virginia managed to stick a needle in John Allen Muhammad’s arm and do away with him ... and somehow he didn’t become a “holy mascot to the left”.


118 posted on 08/10/2015 6:11:50 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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